# Khaled El-Rouayheb James Richard Jewett Professor of Islamic Intellectual History Chair of the Department, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University ![Khaled El-Rouayheb](/sites/g/files/omnuum9471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/earlymodernworld/files/affiliate_rouayheb.jpg?itok=5lQhiVpb) email laptop\_windows [University Website](https://nelc.fas.harvard.edu/people/khaled-el-rouayheb) - Region(s): Eastern Mediterranian; Egypt; Saudi Arabia - Time Period(s): 13th century; 14th century; 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century - Theme(s): Arabic-Islamic intellectual and cultural history; Islamic theology and philosophy; Arabic logic Khaled El-Rouayheb’s research interests include: the intellectual and cultural history of the Arabic-Islamic world in the Mamluk and early-Ottoman periods (1200-1800); the history of Arabic logic; Islamic theology and philosophy. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), a MA in Middle Eastern History from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), and a PhD (2003) from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). His publications include three monographs: Before Homosexuality in the Arabic-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (University of Chicago Press, 2005), Relational Syllogisms & the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900 (Brill, 2010), and Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has also prepared an edition of Kashf al-asrar ‘an ghawamid al-afkar, a summa of logic by Afdal al-Din al-Khunaji (d.1248) (Iranian Institute for Philosophy, 2010). He is the co-editor (along with Sabine Schmidtke of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton) of The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy (2016). - ## People: Department Search [Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University](/people-department-search/department-near-eastern-languages-and-civilizations) - ## People: Filtered Search [Faculty](/people-filtered-search/faculty) - ## People: Theme Search [Cultural History](/people-theme-search/cultural-history) [Intellectual History](/people-focus-search/intellectual-history) - ## People: Region Search [Eastern Mediterranean](/people-region-search/eastern-mediterranean) [Egypt](/people-region-search/egypt) [Middle East](/people-region-search/middle-east) [Saudi Arabia](/people-region-search/saudi-arabia) - ## People: Time Period Search [14th Century](/people-time-period-search/14th-century) [15th Century](/people-time-period-search/15th-century) [16th Century](/people-time-period-search/16th-century) [17th Century](/people-time-period-search/17th-century) [18th Century](/people-time-period-search/18th-century)